Isn’t the mass shooting count based on the number of people shot, and not the number of people killed?
I suspect that the definition is a bit arbitrary, based on who’s defining it.
Everytown and the Gun Violence Archive both define a
mass shooting as any incident in which four or more people are shot and killed, excluding the shooter.
It makes me wonder.
We’re often told that some of these mass shooters crave the notoriety that they already know awaits them if they kill enough people, and that the media coverage of these events tends to spur additional such events.
I wonder if any of them begins their ghoulish crusade and realizes that they have that threshold to cross in order to ‘qualify’ as a ‘mass shooter.’
I wonder if it occurs to these young kids that they should maybe level up by hitting that crossover figure in body count.
I shudder to think, but …
I don’t know about that.
If a ‘mass shooting’ is four or more victims killed, we’ve already had 233 of them this year. I don’t believe that many of these incidents have been extensively reported in the media, although that may be changing.
And I hope the media coverage is changing. I think all of these incidents should be reported on every major news outlet, every day. That may change the minds of a few people.
8 year old boy killed when a guy randomly shooting at cars kills him,
I’ve noticed that after a big mass shooting, the media tends to cover the “smaller” mass shootings a bit more, but eventually it tapers off as they just don’t have time to cover them all.
Gotta love the name of the gun store in the Simpson’s clip.
Blood, Bath and Beyond Gun Shop! 
I’ve never watched the show so I don’t know if the store name is well known or not.
I don’t know if it would be helpful to show the actual aftermath of some of these mass shootings (not the dead bodies - just the rooms). Talking heads just don’t get the graphic horror across.
I had to call around to make arrangements to find someone to clean up my father’s basement after my brother’s suicide attempt by knife.
When I saw the bloody chair, the splattered floor and walls it hit me just how brutal it was.
Small changes in the way we communicate can have far reaching impact.
The aftermath is the funerals and the empty schools. I don’t know that seeing blood spatter is going to budge the public much, and I can see how families of victims would not want that out there.
Nitpick: no comma, “Bloodbath and Beyond”. Yup, perfect title.
We all probably read that the parents of the deceased kids in Texas had to submit DNA samples so the bodies of their children could be identified. While I don’t advocate showing the pictures of these poor kids, perhaps this fact needs to be brought up on a regular basis.
Man robbed of his assault rifle at gunpoint goes to his car, pulls out another gun, and randomly opens fire.
12 year old boy in custody after entering a gas station and shooting off a round, demanding money.
I posted this in the P&E thread on Uvalde, but it bears repeating where commentary can be less restrained on the utterly fucked-up handling of the massacre. I first learned of this this morning, on a CNN segment where the two guests, both with extensive LEO experience, were so flabbergasted they could barely formulate coherent comments.
Dear gods and little fishes. It’s been depressing and at times astounding, how the Uvalde narrative has morphed, how increasingly clear it’s become that the LEO response was incompetent, to put it mildly. And now this:
Police chief had no radio during the shooting.
The state agency investigating the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde has determined that the commander facing criticism for the slow police response was not carrying a radio as the massacre unfolded, a Texas state senator said Friday.
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Authorities have not said how other law enforcement officials were communicating with Arredondo on the scene. Arredondo heads the district’s small department and was in charge of the multi-agency response to the shooting.
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Police radios are a crucial source of real-time communication during an emergency and, according to experts, often how information from 911 calls is relayed to officers on the ground. It’s unclear who at the scene was aware of the calls. Uvalde police did not respond to questions about the calls Thursday.
Gunsmoke signals.
Was this a political assassination carried out from the orders of a Domestic Terrorist Group ( ‘militia’ for short)? Calling him a ‘lone wolf’ just doesn’t pass the smell test.
“Legitimate political discourse.”
How many rounds fit into the mag of a “Legitimate political discourse”? Is it semi-automatic for extra fast shooting fun? Does it come with a scope, a laser site, and a blinding bright forward light in case the toddlers being hunted run too fast?
gives a whole new meaning to ad hominem
Well, as long as some prayers are said over their graves, who am I to judge if they’re in Latin?